Disparate data, technology fiefdoms and the rise of the geo boffin!

Will Cadell

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Open data is awesome (give yourselves a clap, come on!)

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Prince

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Do we really care about the software?

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There are estimated to be 14,308,667,560 pictures of cats on the internet There are only thought to be 220,000,000 domestic cats in the world So, every cat has had 65 pictures of it posted on the web? Right?

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In California there are 58 counties. > 39 of them have readily available “open data” > 2100 data sources > 53 (avg) data sources per publishing county > 10 different data formats > 2% invalid geometry

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The future: automate all the things

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The future: augment all the things

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road data * every publishing organization * time

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a ludicrous amount of geospatial work

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Hooray, for us geo boffins!